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“sarah hanisch”

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  • Searching for Sweetness

    Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho

    by Sarah Hanisch ...
    Series Book 4 - Crossing Seas
    Traversing from the rapidly urbanising county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographies linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Against the backdrop of China’s national struggle for modernity and globalisation, Sarah Hanisch examines Chinese ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • The Coming Collapse of China

    by Gordon G. Chang ...
    China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Prisoner of the State

    The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

    by Zhao Ziyang ...
    Translated by Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu, Renee Chiang ...
    Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Economist: China

    Rising Power, Anxious State

    by The Economist Publications (PUK Rights) ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.'The line up for next year's change of leadership does not give cause for optimism' says James Miles, the Economist's China ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • City of Protest

    A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

    by Antony Dapiran ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of 2014. What emerges from these grassroots movements is a unique Hong Kong identity, one shaped neither by Britain nor China. An insightful exploration of the historical and social stimuli ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • How China's Leaders Think

    The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders

    by Robert Lawrence Kuhn ...
    A fascinating look at China now and in the years to come, through the eyes of those at the helmAs China continues its rapid ascent, attention is turning to its leaders, who they are, and how they view the country's incredible transformation over the last thirty years. In How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Past, Current and Future Leaders, Revised, bestselling author Lawrence ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with Taiwan

    History, the United States and a Rising China

    by Kalley Wu Tzu Hui, Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Poverty in the Midst of Affluence

    How Hong Kong Mismanaged Its Prosperity

    by Leo F. Goodstadt ...
    Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A System Apart

    Hong Kong’s Political Economy from 1997 till Now: Penguin Specials

    by Simon Cartledge ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Since 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth rate has dropped sharply, inequality has increased, and corruption has found its way to the highest levels of government. These developments, Simon Cartledge argues, can be attributed to the city’s ‘pro-business’ constitution, which has held back change and led to the rise of an anti-establishment, localist opposition. A System Apart traces the interplay of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Soft Power

    China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics

    by Jianfeng Chen, Xiaohe Cheng Xiaogang Deng, Yong Deng, Zhongying Pang, Ignatius Wibowo, Lening Zhang, Yongjin Zhang, Gang Chen, Joshua Kurlantzick, Suisheng Zhao, Zhiqun Zhu ...
    Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • China Renaissance, The: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And The 18th Communist Party Congress

    by Writers, Artists And Editors Of The South China Morning Post, Jonathan Sharp ...
    Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party's 18th National Congress held in November 2012. While the conclave itself passed off with smoothly choreographed efficiency, the months leading up to this once-a-decade transition were anything but orderly. Intense factional wrangling behind the scenes was accompanied by scandals very much in ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea

    Edited by Yun-shik Chang, Steven Hugh Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea’s dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korean ... Read more

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